From The State, Charleston South Carolina POLITICS & GOVERNMENT As Trump visits Carolina-Clemson game, billboards taunting him await. Here’s what they say BY ANNA WILDER UPDATED NOVEMBER 25, 2023 One of eight electronic billboards broadcasting an anti-Trump message Saturday Nov. 25 as Trump makes his way into Columbia for the USC-Clemson game. PAUL OSMUNDSON … Continue reading Carolina Headache for Number 45
October is Visitation & Board meeting month for Friends United Meeting (FUM). Besides board members from FUM’s shrinking but scattered territories, notable Friends will be gathering in and around its home turf of Richmond Indiana. Among the most notable of these visitors is Kenyan Friend John Muhanji, who heads FUM’s African ministries. Besides official sessions, … Continue reading FUM, John Muhanji, Uganda & “KILL The GAYS Laws: A Few Questions
AP News: Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024 By JULIE CARR SMYTH — Sept. 30, 2023 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds not only over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights initiative on the state’s … Continue reading Big Anti-Abortion Squabble Dogs Campaign in Ohio
From Reading Religion: The End of Public Execution Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South By: Michael Ayers Trotti 266 Pages — $32.95 Published By: University of North Carolina Press Michael Ayers Trotti’s The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South opens with a short transcription of a newspaper … Continue reading When Hanging Wasn’t Brutal Enough for Black Prisoners: Southern Whites Brought In “Old Sparky”
You Can’t Talk About Trump’s Georgia Case Without Talking About Racism TIME Magazine — IDEAS BY JANELL ROSS — AUGUST 24, 2023 Janell Ross is the senior correspondent on race and identities for TIME. As the final bars of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” filled the room, former President Donald Trump took the stage … Continue reading A Weekend Read: The Atlanta Trials & Race